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Asbestos	The legion demolition continues
	But plastic suits mean asbestos found

After a month delay the work begins again

Typical of Rupert attitude?

Rules are for big cities—here we just use ‘common sense’

And common sense tells us asbestos is harmless

Or just fill in numerous other ‘rules’ that are ignored here

Danger to Public?

The crux of matter is that Asbestos is legally a Hazardous Waste and has to be treated with special precautions --- 2) Businesses that try to save $$ by cutting costs may put public in danger --- thus before WCB from Terrace showed up and stopped work on this project – dump trucks of this material were taken to City dump to be burned – when refused and told have to use more expensive facility (15$ vs 84$/ ton) I hear the operator took the material to a local lake/ private property and burned it there. Then WCB showed up --- now we see correct disposal and transport procedures being followed

Asbestos is no problem

Oh ya?

Asbestos as epidemic

Agreed US more litigious – but also more slack in past --- here is advocacy site with good information from casual to workplace exposure and illnesses that follow often only visible after a decade --- but as specific to asbestos once diagnosed it is only matter of finding out where the exposure took place,

Here is a Canadian advocacy site with links

Innocent Bystanders

Bystander Exposure

Originally intended to describe how workers family contracted the disease – or people living near a work site etc ---- but in case of contractors burning demolition waste at local dumps (Rules and regulations are for wimps?) then we are all bystanders (but the contractor saved $$)

Here is an excellent site that covers all the asbestos and disease topics on one site – legal orientation

	Previous in Legion demolition series
	( 1st Legion demolition and then the troubles started, the latter raises public issues about Asbestos-- and also the 'Dump' as pointer to broader PR issues)

Created by LG on June 1, 2006

Last updated on Monday, August 16, 2010